Well, for one thing, the names are spelled differently.
Although there are a great many connections between Ireland and Star Wars - just recently, a Fair City actor joined the cast of the untitled Han Solo movie - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story didn't have any notable Irish links.
For a while, we were pretty sure that Scarif - the planet in which the third act of the film takes place - took its name from Scarriff in East Clare or Scarriff Island off the coast of Kerry, but it turns out that's no longer the case as Gareth Edwards, the director of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has debunked that particular fan theory.
In an interview with CNN, Edwards explained that it came from a pretty innocuous source. "I go over to get a coffee from Starbucks. I’m thinking, ‘What could be the name? It could be this. Maybe we could use that?’ Then at the very end, she gives me the drink and they must have asked my name and I must have said, ‘It’s Gareth,’ but they heard ‘Scarif.’ They wrote Scarif on the cup and I was like, ‘That sounds like Star Wars,'" and thus, Scarif was born.
Doesn't matter, we're just going to keep right on believing that Scarif was named after Scarriff Island - which, to be honest, sounds like a supervillain's lair already.
Via CNN
